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1. (v.t.) swindle
to cheat out of money or other assets.
2. swindle
to obtain by fraud or deceit.
3. (v.i.) swindle
to defraud others; cheat.
4. (n.) swindle
the act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme.
5. swindle
anything deceptive; a fraud.
Etymology: (1775–85; back formation from swindler < G Schwindler cheat)
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| Definition of 'swindle' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) swindle, cheat, rig
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
"that book is a fraud"
2. (verb) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
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| Definition of 'swindle' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) swindle
the act or process of swindling; a cheat
2. (verb) swindle
to cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property
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Sense: to cheat
That shopkeeper has swindled me!; He swindled me out of $4.
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Afrikaans: verneuk |
Arabic: يَخْدَع، يَغُش |
Bulgarian: измамвам |
Brazilian: burlar |
Czech: napálit |
German: betrügen |
Danish: snyde; svindle |
Greek: εξαπατώ |
Spanish: estafar, timar |
Estonian: tüssama |
Farsi: گول زدن |
Finnish: huijata |
French: escroquer |
Hebrew: לְרַמוֹת |
Hindi: धोखा देना |
Croatian: prevariti, varati |
Hungarian: becsap |
Indonesian: menipu |
Icelandic: svindla |
Italian: imbrogliare |
Japanese: だます |
Korean: 편취하다 |
Lithuanian: apgauti |
Latvian: apkrāpt; piekrāpt |
Malay: menipu |
Dutch: oplichten |
Norwegian: svindle, lure |
Polish: oszukiwać |
Persian: گول زدن |
Pashto: ګول وهل |
Portuguese: burlar |
Romanian: a escroca |
Russian: обманывать; надувать |
Slovak: oklamať |
Slovenian: ogoljufati |
Serbian: prevariti |
Swedish: lura, svindla |
Thai: โกง |
Turkish: dolandırmak |
Taiwanese: 騙取 |
Ukrainian: обманювати, ошукувати |
Urdu: دھوکا دینا |
Vietnamese: lừa dảo, bịp bợm |
Chinese: 骗取 |
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